It’s been a busy week in the news for the Lindroth Lab group. Ken Keefover-Ring, a post-doctoral scientist and soon to be faculty of the Botany and Geography departments at UW Madison, is one of the investigators on a major multi-university NSF grant. In a recent UWMadScience article, Poplars, perfumes, willows and insects: Understanding tree biodiversity, he talks about the project which looks at how chemical ecology can help us understand how insect pollination contributes to tree biodiversity.

Bee pollinating a willow

 

Michael Falk, a Master’s student, made the eCALs news this week with a video he and another graduate student created for the Entomological Society of America’s student video competition. Be sure to check out this poignant video describing his work and why it’s important not only for science, but for society as a whole. Click here to watch (A)synchrony – An Untimely Problem.

A cottonwood dagger moth rests on a trembling aspen leaf

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